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[[British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia|BACSA]] are in the process of putting the indexes to its cemetery books online and these indexes are free to browse. If an indexed name is of interest then application can be made to BACSA for details of the relevant burial inscription - charges apply for this service.
::FamilySearch have digitised the above BACSA book, which has restricted access, but which may be viewed on a FamilySearch computer at a FamilySearch Centre. viewing is not available currently (2023/12) [https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/640922 Catalogue entry]. For more information, see and [[FamilySearch Centres]]https://www. '''Update June 2018. It appears that FamilySearch digital viewing is no longer possible. To be clarified'''familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/193202-quetta-monuments-and-inscriptions-baluchistan-pakistan FS Digital Library catalogue entry]
The [[British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia|BACSA]] Archive at the [[British Library]] has the following items:
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V21_026.gif Quetta Town] Imperial Gazetteer of India
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quetta Quetta] Wikipedia
*[https://cscquetta.gov.pk/2012/08/11/historical-college-building/ Command and Staff College Quetta] cscquetta.gov.pk:[https://www.dssc.gov.in/history/The%20Quetta%20Heritage.pdf Quetta Heritage: The Staff College, Quetta] Defence Services Staff College (India) dssc.gov.in
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60TTFC9K8os&feature=related Bruce Street] (now Jinnah Road) before 1935 earthquake.(youtube video)
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nce3PWXpsa0 Post office] before and after earthquake (1935) (youtube video)
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUlVc5X912E Gora Kubristan Quetta: British colonial christian cemetery Quetta] by quettabalochistan, YouTube video
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/9164665@N04/sets/72157616334256664/with/3411976924/ Quetta's eloquent graveyard] A set of photographs by saaakif taken 2008. flickr.com
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140413072402/http://www.thefridaytimes.com/beta3/tft/article.php?issue=20121221&page=30 Quetta Sphinx (c1930)]thefridaytimes.com , archived. Photograph of the memorial known as the Quetta Sphinx for the Second Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment in respect of those who died in Baluchistan/Southern Afghanistan circa October 1880-January 1883. This memorial has now been destroyed.
*[http://tribune.com.pk/story/363609/mummy-dearest/ "‘Mum’my dearest!"] by Muhammad Adil Mulki April 15, 2012 tribune.com.pk
*Note about the [http://nq.oxfordjournals.org/content/CLXIII/oct29/312-a.extract Afghan War Cemetery at Quetta] by H Bullock, situated near the village of Kasi , two miles from Quetta. Contains men who died during the [[1st Afghan War]]. Lists four names and advises a large number of NCOs and men of the [[40th Regiment of Foot]] were buried here. ''Notes and Queries Volume CLXIII, Issue Oct 29 1932'',' page 312
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